Balam Bartolomé (Ocosingo, Chiapas, 1975) has constructed his artistic discourse through the use of pun, paradox and irony. In his process an argument is immediately followed by an opposite, so that each work becomes an open field to questions and possibilities. His work is located on the edge of reality and facing the uncertain scope where reason, fate, irony and absurdity emerge as ways to name the world. His work develops at the edge of doubt: a space simultaneously defined and diluted, where front and back, certainty and uncertainty are reconciled and reversed. Bartolomé gets his hand into the glove of language-reality-truth, and turns it over to expose its fragile and precarious meaning.

Revés (Backhand) is a solo exhibition of Balam Bartolomé’s aesthetic method. It has assembled a diverse group of works and objects that provide an insight into the practice of the artist from his particular process, context and references.

Revés is a project developed in collaboration with curator Christian Barragán, under the care of Guillermo Santamarina, chief curator at Museo Carrillo Gil.